Missouri City City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
SECTION 7
- USE DISTRICTS
Sections
- Sec. 7.1.- SD suburban district.
- Sec. 7.1.a. - R rural single-family residential district.
- Sec. 7.2. - R-1 single-family residential district.
- Sec. 7.2.a. - R-1-A single-family residential district.
- Sec. 7.3. - R-2 single-family residential district.
- Sec. 7.4. - R-3 two-family residential district.
- Sec. 7.5. - R-4 patio-cluster residential district.
- Sec. 7.6. - R-5 townhouse residential district.
- Sec. 7.7. - R-6 condominium residential district.
- Sec. 7.8. - MF-1 multifamily residential district.
- Sec. 7.9. - MF-2 multifamily residential district.
- Sec. 7.95. - LC local commercial district.
- Sec. 7.96. - LC-O local commercial office district.
- Sec. 7.10. - LC-1 local retail restricted district.
- Sec. 7.11. - LC-2 local retail district.
- Sec. 7.12. - LC-3 retail district.
- Sec. 7.125. - LC-4 retail district.
- Sec. 7.1255. - BP business park district.
- Sec. 7.13. - I industrial district.
- Sec. 7.14. - MH manufactured home district.
- Sec. 7.15. - CF community facilities district.
SECTION 7A
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STANDARDS
Sections
- Sec. 7A.1.- Purpose; applicability; relation to zoning classifications.
- Sec. 7A.2. - Architectural design standards for nonresidential, condominium and multifamily development.
- Sec. 7A.3. - Prohibitions.
- Sec. 7A.4. - Modified standards for existing nonresidential, multifamily and condominium projects.
- Sec. 7A.5. - Administration.
SECTION 9
- SUPPLEMENTARY DISTRICT REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 9.1.- Visibility at intersections.
- Sec. 9.2. - Accessory buildings and structures in residentially zoned areas.
- Sec. 9.3. - Erection of more than one principal structure on a lot.
- Sec. 9.4. - Exceptions to height regulations.
- Sec. 9.5. - Structures to have access.
- Sec. 9.6. - Parking, storage, or use of major recreational or utility equipment.
- Sec. 9.7. - Stopping, standing, parking of commercial vehicles.
- Sec. 9.8. - Garages.
- Sec. 9.9. - Model home sales office site.
- Sec. 9.10. - Special events.
- Sec. 9.11. - Location requirements of sexually oriented business.
- Sec. 9.12. - Industrialized housing.
- Sec. 9.13. - Child care facility regulations.
- Sec. 9.14. - Trash disposal regulations.
- Sec. 9.15. - Portable storage unit regulations in suburban and residential districts.
- Sec. 9.16. - Home occupation regulations.
- Sec. 9.17. - Outside placement, storage, sales and services of materials, merchandise, and equipment in commercial, business park, and industrial districts.
- Sec. 9.18. - Credit access businesses.
- Sec. 9.19. - Mobile food unit regulations.
- Sec. 9.20. - Massage establishments.
SECTION 11
- LANDSCAPING
Sections
- Sec. 11.1.- Purpose.
- Sec. 11.2. - Requirements for plants used for landscaping.
- Sec. 11.3. - Requirements for fences, walls and berms used for landscaping.
- Sec. 11.4. - Transitional buffer yards.
- Sec. 11.5. - Off-street parking areas.
- Sec. 11.6. - Interior landscaping.
- Sec. 11.7. - Monument signs.
- Sec. 11.8. - Alternative landscaping requirements.
- Sec. 11.9. - General requirements.
- Sec. 11.10. - Conflict with other regulations.
- Sec. 11.11. - Landscape plan.
- Sec. 11.12. - Changes to the landscape plan.
SECTION 12
- PARKING REGULATIONS
Sections
SECTION 13
- SIGN REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 13.1.- Purpose and objectives.
- Sec. 13.2. - Relation to zoning classifications.
- Sec. 13.3. - Tables and depictions.
- Sec. 13.4. - Application of regulations in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the city.
- Sec. 13.5. - Master sign plan.
- Sec. 13.6. - Sign permits.
- Sec. 13.7. - Signs for areas subject to specific use permits.
- Sec. 13.8. - Signs displaying commercial messages.
- Sec. 13.9. - Summary of allowable signs.
- Sec. 13.10. - Regulations for conditionally exempt signs.
- Sec. 13.11. - Summary of regulations for permitted signs.
- Sec. 13.12. - Regulations for permitted signs.
- Sec. 13.13. - Principles of sign area computation.
- Sec. 13.14. - Sign lighting standards.
- Sec. 13.15. - Sign construction and maintenance.
- Sec. 13.16. - Exemptions.
- Sec. 13.17. - Prohibited signs.
- Sec. 13.18. - Illegal and nonconforming signs.
- Sec. 13.19. - Abandoned signs.
- Sec. 13.20. - Owner's disclosure notice.
SECTION 15B
TOWERS
Sections
- Sec. 15B.1.- General.
- Sec. 15B.2. - Specific use permit required.
- Sec. 15B.3. - Specific use permit not required.
- Sec. 15B.4. - General requirement and regulations for towers and antennae.
- Sec. 15B.5. - Shared use for all towers and antennae.
- Sec. 15B.6. - Removal of unsafe antennae and towers.
- Sec. 15B.7. - Abandoned towers and antennae.
- Sec. 15B.8. - Dismantling of surplus height.
- Sec. 15B.9. - Public property.
SECTION 17
- ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- Sec. 17.1.- Administrative official.
- Sec. 17.2. - Building permits required.
- Sec. 17.3. - Expiration of building permit.
- Sec. 17.4. - Certificate of zoning compliance for new, altered, or nonconforming uses.
- Sec. 17.5. - Construction and use to be as provided in applications, plans, permits, and certificates of zoning compliance.
- Sec. 17.6. - Permit application expiration.
SECTION 19
- AMENDMENTS
Sections
- Sec. 19.1.- Authority.
- Sec. 19.2. - Submission to planning and zoning commission.
- Sec. 19.3. - Public hearing, planning and zoning commission.
- Sec. 19.4. - Public hearing, city council.
- Sec. 19.5. - Vote required in the event of protest.
- Sec. 19.6. - Appeals from decisions of the planning and zoning commission.